Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "LBC" channel.

  1.  @wilhelm4321  Which, of course, is what has happened.
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  2. Don't you understand the concept of asset rich, but cash poor? I suspect that you would be up in arms were there to be a serious increase in the price of food, despite your contempt for the people who produce much of that food. By the way 'brake?' Perhaps you mean 'break?' 'Make the working poor pay more tax.' Too late. Rachel has already done that.
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  3.  @tryingmybest9819  It is, it seems, a last resort after Rachel from Accounts has consistently refused to discuss the issue with anyone who actually understands it.
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  4. ' Breaks Cover?' When did he take cover?
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  5. 'What the point of them if they don't act.' From their point of view, the point is that they keep their £91,000 p.a. salaries, continue to claim almost limitless expenses, and get to make a few lucrative 'contacts.' Show enough unquestioning loyalty for long enough, and there might even be a junior ministerial position round the corner. Another 'nice little earner.' In politics, when personal gain and integrity collide, the former wins, every time.
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  6.  @mandyharewood886  The industrial revolution was nor financed by slavery. In fact, the growth of industrialistion was what largely ended slavery. No one came to Britain to help rebuild the country after WW2. The people the Windrush simply took advantage of cheap fares offered aboard a troopship returning almost empty. At the same time, British citizens were being offered assisted passage to the Antipodes. Read up on 'Ten Pound Poms.' As Friedrich Schiller wrote ' Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain.'
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  7.  @martynblackburn9632  I assume you don't occasionally go on holiday, or perhaps even own a car?
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  8. He isn't 'flip flopping.' Hasn't he been consistent about Mr. Robinson?
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  9.  @desmondroberts6034  I wonder if a 'little old lady' would have tried to drive through a group of armed police after being told to stop several times, in a car which was known to have been in a drive by shooting? Perhaps tou simply know different little old ladies?
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  10.  @johnrussell3961  So, you really weren't aware that Farage was never in government, or you would not have made such an ill-informed comment.
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  11.  @Beanscf9ep  You really believe that the patchwork of Moslem & Hindu princely states perpetually at war, was better for the average Indian?
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  12.  @tasshah8509  Oh dear. The Chagos Islands were unoccupied, before France landed a number of slaves on them. The islands were handed over to Britain in 1814, and have remained under British control ever since. Chagossians living in this country do not wish for their islands to be handed over to Mauritius, by the way.
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  13.  @martynblackburn9632  'The channcelor does not have to have a background in banking to do the job.' You seriously don't think that the Chancellor (that, by the way, is the correct spelling) should have some practical knowledge of economics? As the late Eric Morecambe would have said 'There's no answer to that!' If you ever need an operation, wouldn't you want the person undertaking it to have some practical knowledge of surgery?
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  14.  @stuc3195  You miss the point. Mr. Ferguson seems to equate voting for Brexit with a shameful, greedy, deed. indeed, he even uses this phrase of farmers and fisherman :- 'voted in the highest national percentages to ruin Britain.' I doubt a rational response to him would serve any purpose, as it seems his idea of democracy is simply that it gives the right to agree with his opinion.
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  15. By 'tense and fascinating' I presume you mean 'foregone conclusion?'
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  16.  @johnrussell3961  Perhaps you are unaware that Farage was never in a position to deliver, or not deliver, Brexit?
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  17.  @johnrussell3961  Well, if he really had no idea, then you should get on well with him, as you have something in common. 'Lack of power is moot.' Nonsense, power is a sine qua non.
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  18. Just like the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel allowance, do you mean?
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  19.  richardboland1935  But a questionable one. Farmers are dependent upon what the major supermarket chains are willing to pay for their produce. The alternative, which won't happen anytime soon, is significant increase in food prices, which the chains will not countenance. Nor, I suspect, would Dazzle.
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  20. If virtue-signallers like Mr. O'Brien wish to make donations as private individuals, then let them, but don't seek to impose such things on Britain as a matter of policy.
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  21. Is a dozen reall 'en masse?'
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  22.  @shaddozer0ne115  Really? Examples?
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  23.  @tryingmybest9819  Perhaps you don't understand the term 'The Last Resort?' I haven't, by the way, said that I agree with the action, only that I can understand the desperation the farmers feel which has apparently driven them to take it. So stop trying to change the issue with facile questions.
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  24.  @tryingmybest9819  Of course it is my opinion. Isn't that what comments are for? I respectfully submit that, if farmers did not share the last resort belief, they would not be acting as they are. Perhaps you might consider that as a possibility?
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  25.  @tryingmybest9819  'understanding is irrelevant.' I have never suggested that. Why are continuing to ask increasingly irrelevant questions?
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  26. You mean the 'rules' enthusiastically supported by MPs of all parties?
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  27.  @lord-u8j  When did I suggest that the Labour Party, or anyone else, should not accept donations? If you wish to debate, at least try to do it on the basis of something I wrote, rather than on the basis of something that you would like to claim I might have written.
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  28.  @lord-u8j  It is becoming increasingly apparent that you don;'t actually understand much, but I will try to make it clear: You wrote 'What's your point? Political parties run on donations, but if you're the Labour Party, you shouldn't accept donations?' Where did I say anything about 'donations?' My reply related to the RULES. A totally different subject.
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  29.  @lord-u8j  'OK then. I wasn't really addressing my point to you solely.' Perhaps, then, you should not have addressed your replies to me, solely, should you?
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  30.  @lord-u8j  I have said quite sufficient, without getting a relevant response. I regret that I hadn't realised at the outset that you weren't very bright, as I could have saved myself some time.
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  31. I wonder if Ms. Vennells is aware that 'The Business' or 'The Post Office' or even 'The Board' don't have any opinions or make any decisions? However, the people in authority who make up these bodies, such as Ms. Vennells, certainly do.
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  32. Why should the fact that a descendant of Gladstone was ignorant of the history of his forebears demonstrate that the subject was 'taboo?' Perhaps he was simply either ignorant, or simply not interested?
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  33.  @bryangeake5826  Then feel free to send a personal cheque.
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  34. I think that you actually mean a small number of Commonwealth leaders, all from the same part of the world, don't you?
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  35.  @jasonhaven7170  Presumably, you aren't aware that, in terms of the public vote, Reform received 600,000 more than the LibDems, and the Greens were nowhere near the total of either?
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  36.  @jasonhaven7170  You must not be aware of what is happening in the Republic, either, then?
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  37. Who? Nick Ferrari?
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  38.  @vikramsoondur6891  You sure about that? Moreover, I am sure that you have an impeccable source about their opinions, amnd you will now vouchsafe it to us.
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  39.  @vikramsoondur6891  The Chagos Islands were never part of Mauritius. They were uninhabited, then French, then, from 1810, British. The people of the Chagos Islands are not Mauritian in origin.
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  40. @trevormannsfield Out of interest, how many Public Inquiries did the Dear Leader demand when he was Leader of the Opposition?
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  41. But when someone claims detailed understanding of economics, is given responsibility for the management of the Economy of a major nation, and is then discovered to have been dishonest about her qualifications for the role, don't you consider that concerning?
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  42. For a couple of hundred years? Try again. Mauritius became an independent nation in 1968.
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  43.  @martynblackburn9632  You don't actually seem able to answer any rational question. However, exactly how is the Winter Fuel Allowance (introduced by Labour but maintained for fourteen years for Tories) socialism? Moreover, what is you evidence that pensioners dislike socialism?
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  44.  @Dazzle229  But what should happen and what does happen are generally different. The farmers are desperately worried about the situation as it is, rather than as it perhaps ought to be.
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  45.  @Dazzle229  Perhaps you might explain this to Farmers and their representatives? Your idea of 'problem solved would not, I suggest, accord with their views.
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  46. When I was younger I considered being a socialist, but sadly I was never wealthy enough to proceed with the idea.
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  47. Of course it does. You clearly have access to the books from the farm and, unlike Rachel from Accounts, can actually understand them.
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  48.  @tryingmybest9819  'It's only likely to affect 500 farmers a year according to the treasury?' The last four words effectively answer that bit of your comment. As to the price rise. Ever heard of supply & demand? Should there be less food the price of what there is will, inevitably, rise. Just like Rachel from Accounts, I suspect that you are not an economist.
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  49.  @plagiarisedwords  You don't seem to understand the difference between 'poor' and 'cash poor.' Perhaps, like Rachel from Accounts, you have no practical understanding of economics, or perhaps you are simply one of the 'My Party, right or wrong' group.
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  50.  @tryingmybest9819  The NFU and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) have estimated up to 70,000 farms could be affected. Both are specialists in the economics of farming. Which is, I suspect, rather more than the Treasury or Rachel from Accounts are. When individuals as diverse as Davey, Farage, Clarkson, & Lloyd-Webber are supporting the farmers, cannot you even grasp that something might be amiss?
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